The document summarizes the proceedings of the First Annual Scientific Conference of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. It discusses sessions on gender funding intelligence, proposal development, and promoting gender work. A working group was formed to support gender resource mobilization, with the goals of collecting funding intelligence, communicating opportunities, and assisting with funder engagement and potential collaboration. Key donors were identified and an inventory of donor gender strategies and policies was started.

1. Resourceful Mobilizing for
Resource Mobilization
First Annual Scientific Conference
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research
Frank Place
Ewen Leborgne
Dec 7 2017

2. Gender funding intelligence: Stock is taken of the funding landscape, of major funding opportunities
and information support from the platform
Proposal development: Participants get to hear about some principles, do’s and don’ts about smart
and successful proposal development.
Promoting gender work: Participants have mapped the challenges of promoting gender research and
their own expertise internally and externally, have identified ways to change that discourse and have
suggested steps forward to work further on this.
Support network and gender resource mobilization working group: A working group is created with
identified and potentially committed members, and it has developed an indicative work plan (process
map). Participants have also identified who could be part of a wider support network on gender in Ag.
Topics and Key Outputs of the Session

3. Program for the afternoon
Gender research funding intelligence
Successful funding and proposal development
Promoting gender work
Potential area for collaboration – World Bank Gender and Climate Team
Support network and gender resource mobilization working group

4. Highlights from Donor Panel
1. Gender is not just high priority but essential to funding
From BMGF Website:
We receive some grant proposals that do not account for gender differences and do not consider how agricultural
initiatives may benefit or hinder women or men. We refer to such proposals as gender neutral. The foundation
does not support these types of projects because women can be further marginalized if their concerns and
needs are not explicitly factored into the program design
2. An interest to see that gender research also benefit development investments
3. Some opportunities to follow up on; EC on supporting Rome based institutions in their gender programming;
the challenge for the platform to become a gender clearinghouse

5. Donor Contact Status of Policy Link
European
Commission
Ria Ketting
Maria.PARIS-KETTING@ec.europa.eu 2011 Agenda for Change
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A52011DC0637&qid=
1412922281378&from=EN
European
Commission
Ria Ketting
Maria.PARIS-KETTING@ec.europa.eu 2017 Concensus on Development https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/sites/devco/files/europe
an-consensus-on-development-final-20170626_en.pdf
European
Commission
Ria Ketting
Maria.PARIS-KETTING@ec.europa.eu 2017 External Investment Plan
https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/news-and-
events/european-unions-external-investment-plan-green-
light-first-five-investment-areas_en
Finland There is a new policy from 2016
http://formin.finland.fi/Public/default.aspx?contentid=34
1918&nodeid=49540&contentlan=2&culture=en-US
Inventory of latest Donor Strategies and Documents Related to Gender

6. European Commission
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Ireland
Belgium
Netherlands
DFID
Germany
SDC
IFAD
Macarthur Foundation
Ford Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
BMGF
Canada – GAC
IDRC
USAID
World Bank
UN Women
AfDB
International Social Science Council
Progress
so Far
Additions to make – send
to me
Need to analyze for gender
content and include in table

7. Note that some funders have country
strategies as well

8. Three other important pieces of information
Links to funding calls
Links to grants made
Links to target countries

9. Links to funding calls
Some donors have a page of open calls, others don’t
IDRC
Grant calls:
https://www.idrc.ca/en/funding/grants
DFID/UK Aid
To search for open calls:
https://www.gov.uk/international-development-
funding?keywords=&fund_state%5B%5D=open

10. Links to grants databases
Again, a few donors have these
Gates Foundation
Recently awarded grants: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database
Grants related to gender, two examples from 2017:
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-
Database/Grants/2017/10/OPP1180718
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-
Database/Grants/2017/10/OPP1176871
DFID
Page for searching on existing projects:
https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/

11. Global Affairs Canada
Here is the link to the project browser:
http://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/
Can filter on a number of key words or characteristics.
Example of an ongoing project in Kenya of relevance to agriculture and gender:
http://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/project-projet/details/D000375001
IDRC
List of funded projects (not sure if searchable):
https://www.idrc.ca/en/what-we-do

12. Key Target Countries
Irish Aid
https://www.irishaid.ie/what-we-do/who-we-work-with/our-partner-countries/
The Netherlands has the following relationships:
Aid relationship with Afghanistan, Burundi, Mali, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, South Sudan and
Yemen.
Transitional relationship with Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique and
Uganda.
Trade relationship with Colombia, South Africa and Vietnam, among others.
USAID Feed the future countries:
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and
Uganda,

13. Working group
To support the collection of intelligence and provide advice to the platform on resource mobilization
efforts for the platform and for other collaborative funding within CGIAR for gender research.
To ensure the communication of research partnership and funding opportunities to the wider Gender
Platform membership
E.g. ensure that opportunities are disseminated by the Platform, arrange for webinars, like
the one we heard from the WB today.
To assist the Platform coordinator in communicating to funders
More involved?:
To support the development of briefs/short concept notes around the priority gender research topics
To help convene proposal write shops